Virgin Australia ceo John Borghetti has just confirmed the ongoing expansion of the carrier's domestic capacity "to meet market requirements and to minimise the impact of ongoing Qantas industrial action on the Australian travel and tourism industry".
He said that over the last three months DJ had already added more than 31000 seats per week, including the expansion of Perth services with the airline's new Business Class offering.
"We are very committed to this market and believe we have the capacity to support increased demand," with 3000 extra seats each week up to 30 Oct and the addition of a fifth daily return Melbourne-Perth flight effective 20 Dec.
Borghetti said the airline was also closely monitoring the Queensland market to ensure it could meet any additional capacity needs as the state's tourism industry rebuilds from the natural disasters earlier this year.
On the international front, "we are well advanced in discussions with alliance partners Etihad Airways and Air New Zealand on providing extra capacity from November, leading into the busy December and January holiday period," he said.
"We will continue to work with all of our alliance partners who are keen to help us support the Australian travelling public and ensure tourism is not affected, both domestically and internationally," Borghetti added, with the alliance network seeing Virgin Australia's global network capacity share in and out of Australia forecast to be around equal to that of oneworld in 2012.
Source:Travel Daily 19 Oct 11
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